Understanding and Leveraging MU Stage 2 Optional Transports (SOAP)

2 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 2 SOAP Deep Dive - Agenda Agenda MU2 Overview and Context Applicable Transport Standards for Certification Importance of Optional Standards (SOAP & XDR/XDM for Direct) XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging RTM 1.0 Discussion and Q/A

Meaningful Use Stage 2 Rule (MU2) Overview and Context Meaningful Use MU2 objectives are the measurable benchmarks that EPs and EHs/CAHs must meet in adopting and using electronic health record (EHR) technology to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments Clinical Care Coordination Privacy & Security Public Health Utilization CQMs Patient Engagement MU2 sets measurable objectives for Eligible Professionals (EPs) or Eligible Hospitals (EHs) / Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to obtain CMS incentives (CMS 495.6) MU2 objectives are categorized to reflect Health Outcomes Policy Priorities Pursuit of certain objectives within Care Coordination category involve using Certified EHR Technology that implements Transport standards Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 3

2014 Edition EHR Certification Criteria: Transitions of Care Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 4 Summary from CMS Final Rule: As part of the Core Set of Measures, EPs, eligible hospitals and CAHs need to “electronically transmit” summary of care record during care transitions. These are further detailed for EPs at §495.6(j)(14)(ii)(A) and eligible hospitals and CAHs at §495.6(l)(11)(ii)(A). These objectives discuss the transport standards that are applicable and the corresponding certification criteria from the ONC S&CC 2014 edition.

2014 Edition EHR Certification Criteria: Transitions of Care Cont’d Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 5 Summary from ONC S&CC 2014 edition: § (b)(1) (Transitions of care – receive, display, and incorporate transition of care/referral summaries) § (b)(2) (Transitions of care – create and transmit transition of care/referral summaries) Transport Standards (Base Minimum) Direct Project Applicability Statement for Secure Health Transport (Optional Standards – 1) Applicability Statement for Secure Health Transport specification and the XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging specification. (Optional Standards – 2) Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-Based Secure Transport Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) version 1.0 standard and the XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging specification.

6 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (b)(1) and (b)(2) – Transitions of Care Transport Standards (Base Minimum) Direct Project Applicability Statement for Secure Health Transport (Optional Standards – 1) Applicability Statement for Secure Health Transport specification and the XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging specification. (Optional Standards – 2) Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)- Based Secure Transport Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) version 1.0 standard and the XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging specification Edition EHR Certification Criteria: Transitions of Care Cont’d

7 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 7 XDR and XDM for Direct as a Bridge capability Systems (HIE’s, HISP’s, EHR’s) Supporting SOAP endpoints SOAP Endpoint 1 SOAP Endpoint 2 Incoming SMTP + S/MIME Direct Messages Outgoing SMTP + S/MIME Direct Messages Information Exchange requiring conversion from SMTP + S/MIME to SOAP Information Exchange requiring conversion from SOAP to SMTP + S/MIME XDR + XDM for Direct Specification used for conversions

8 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 8 XDR and XDM for Direct as a Bridge capability Cont’d Systems (HIE’s, HISP’s, EHR’s) Supporting Direct endpoints Direct Endpoint 1 Direct Endpoint 2 Incoming SOAP Messages Outgoing SOAP Messages Information Exchange requiring conversion from SOAP to SMTP + S/MIME Information Exchange requiring conversion from SMTP + S/MIME to SOAP XDR + XDM for Direct Specification used for conversions

9 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 9 Importance of the Optional Transport Standards Implementation of the Direct capability will require at a minimum Technical Implementation that consists of conformance to the Direct Applicability statement (STA Implementation) CA and RA Services to manage identities and certificates of Direct end points Policies and processes that facilitate the operational aspects of the overall implementation Vendors providing CEHRT may not always provide CA and RA services Organizations may procure different services from different vendors

10 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 10 Importance of the Optional Transport Standards Cont’d SMTP + S/MIME Messages CEHRT SMTP + S/MIME Messages SOAP + XDR Messages CEHRT with XDR + XDM SOAP + XDR Messages SMTP + S/MIME Messages CEHRT with XDR + XDM Implementing the optional transport standards enables CEHRT To participate in different HIE/HISP eco-systems in an agnostic manner Provides multiple deployment options for organizations Support multiple edge protocol options for organizations

11 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 11 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging Overview XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging specifies Transport Conversion requirements to convert between SMTP and SOAP Packaging Conversions requirements to convert from SMTP + S/MIME packages to XDR/XDM packages How the XD* Metadata should be used for Direct Messaging

12 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 12 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging Overview Cont’d Receivers Senders RFC5322+MIMERFC5322+XDMSOAP+XDR RFC5322+MIME No conversion Receiver expected to be able to handle MIME packages Transport Conversion Metadata created RFC5322+XDM No conversion Receiver expected to be able to handle XDM packages No conversion Transport Conversion Metadata simply transformed SOAP + XDR Transport Conversion Metadata simply transformed Package delivered as XDM Transport Conversion Metadata simply transformed Package delivered as XDM No conversion

13 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 13 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging – Transport Conversion In order to support Direct Addressing requirements locating the receivers and senders without opening the contents of the message Addressing Headers have been added to the SOAP envelope Example

14 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 14 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging – Transport Conversion Cont’d SMTP to SOAP ElementSMTP Source FieldsSOAP Destination Fields Addressing ListsSMTP TO command SMTP RCPT FROM command Each TO address is mapped to a corresponding WS Address (Stored in intendedRecipient field), Optionally added to the (direct:to element in SOAP Header) Message ID populate the Message Id WS-Addressing Header elements. Date Populate the submissionTime XD* metadata element of the SubmissionSet

15 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 15 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging – Transport Conversion Cont’d SOAP to SMTP ElementSOAP Source FieldsSMTP Destination Fields Addressing ListsSOAP Header values (direct:from and direct:to elements) if available. Always available in the XD* Metadata elements SubmissionSet.author SubmissionSet.intendedRecipient SMTP TO command populated from the intendedRecipient field SMTP RCPT FROM command populated from the author field. Message IDMessage ID WS-Addressing headerMessage ID field DateSubmissionTime XD* metadata element from the Submission Set Date field

16 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 16 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging – Packaging Conversion RFC5322 to XDR Each part of the RFC5322 message converted to a Document Entry Text Part of the should be mapped to classCode Metadata of from LOINC indicating Healthcare communication Base 64 encoded documents should be decoded prior to packaging them with SOAP Create a Single Submission Set with association to each Document Entry

17 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 17 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging – Packaging Conversion Cont’d Conversions from XDM to XDR Construct a single XDR transaction for each XDM directory containing a metadata file Read and interpret the Metadata.xml file of XDM package Locate all document entries and correlate the URI property of the Document Entry to the corresponding source document Reconstruct the Mime multipart documents using the source Package the source documents as an XDR transaction

18 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 18 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging – Packaging Conversion Cont’d Conversions from XDR to XDM Extract the documents and SubmitObjectsRequest XML element Construct INDEX.HTM and README.TXT following XDM guidelines Create the IHE_XDM directory with a valid subdirectory containing all the XDR transaction contents Each source file is placed in the directories with a unique file name and package multi-part documents as folders Setup the URI property for each file to point to the appropriate file Serialize the SubmitObjectsRequest XML element as METADATA.xml file Finally package the structure as a zip file

19 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 19 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging – Using XD* Metadata Metadata is used within XDR transactions to describe the content of the message to enable integration into workflows of CEHRT Metadata conformance Levels Full XDS Metadata as described by the IHE specifications Minimal metadata Conversion process should indicate the level of conformance using the SOAP header element minimal or XDS

20 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 20 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging – Document Entry Metadata

21 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 21 XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging – Submission Set Metadata

22 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 22 RTM Overview Requirements Traceability Matrix Architecture and Design Documents Reference Implementation and Source Code Demo bundles Test Cases and Test Scripts RTM only specifies Transport, Messaging and Security requirements (TLS, SAML, SOAP Envelope etc) RTM does not specify any content requirements RTM does not require any additional profiles

23 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 23 Discussion and Q/A